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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25
Night.Lights and Insects

Professor A. ]. Cook, of the Michigan
Agricultural College, says: Various ag-
ricultural papers are again publishing the
oft-repeated statement that bright light
suspended over tub of water will kill
our injurious insects. But if wecxclude
the noctuide (night fyers) such as the
cutworln moths, army worm moths, ETC.,
none of our dreaded insect foes can be
trapped in this way Our students col
lect thousands of insects each year by
placing lights in their windows. This
mode of capture never avails against
slugs, butterflies, sphinges, agerian
borers, Goblin moths, many destructive
beetles, two-wing flies, Or any of the
lice, bugs or locusts. Even in case of
the lactuids it is, no very satisfactory
remedy. The moths fly all through June,
July and August. Thus we are now
Guly 8 taking the army worm moths,
and many cutworm moths. We shall
continue to do SO till late in August
Hence the practice of this remedy i'm
plies diligent labor for several weeks,
and yet very likely the natural enemies
of these moths will so thin their ranks
that they will do no harm next year.
All know that it is not every year, but
occasional years, that these pests work
their dreaded havoc. Therefore it seems
more than probable that lights expressly
to capture and kill insects are not to be
strongly recommended, if at all. They
capture few of our enemies, and these
at a cost not warranted.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25
Death Rate Among Children,

The following facts are suggestive:
Full one third of the patients of the
general practitioner are children OF all
children born about one in five dies
within the first year, and one in three
by the end of the fifth year. In New
York about one-half die in five years.
1t is with little children as with extreme
old age, they are very liable to be sick
and their sickness to prove fatal of
those who die within the first year 40
per cent. die of digestive troubles, and
about nineteen per cent die of respira-
tory affections. During this second
year this order is reversed. about 80 per
cent. dying of repiratory and only per
cent. of diseases of the bowels. Fhils-
delphia Times.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25
Mexican "Lnrers' Gnidc.r

There on sale everywhere and in uni
versal use cheaply printed little
pamphlet entitled "El Secretario de los
Amantes. 1t is the guide and hand
book of lovers. 1t contains the language
of flowers, the significance Of the varied
wearing and handling of the sombrero,
the language of the fan, the language of
fruits, the meaning of the varied uses of
the handkerchief, emblems in designat-
ing the hours of day and night in max
ing appointments, the use of the numer-
ais in cipher writing, several short
chapters on the conduct of a love affair,
and deaf mute alphabet for one hand.
This literary gem seems to be more
studied than any other in the republic.
-THarper's Magazine
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25
Artificial Tropics.

In the belief that modern science can
command climate, DR.. B. w. Richard
son proposes that British invalids be
given in their native isle the advantages
of tropical resorts. This he would ac-
complish by establishing winter homes
or health palaces, each containing fifty
or more comfortable two-story houses,
inclosing a large square of ornamental
grounds, and provided with libraries,
baths, gymnasia, amusement halls,
etc. Flower lined galleries, giving long
promcnadcs, would extend over the
houses, under glass roofs, while the
central inclosure would be shut
in by an immense arch of glass at a
great height above the ground. Suit
able heating and ventilating apparatus
would give an equable and adjustable
temperature to all parts ofthe structures
and any desired character may be i'm
parted to the climate. Even cloudy
days need not be known, as electric suns
could be made to'shine at pleasure. In
many places winter resorts on grander
scale might be created by putting whole
valleys under roofs of glass, forming
parks of constant beauty and healthful-
ess.-Arkansaw Traveller.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25
Death Rates in Difrerent Countries.

In France they have only got CEN
tralization against the people chiefly for
military lcvies, says Professor Chadwick
in the Sanitarian, and now they are only
making slow progress with Capitalization
for the people in their places of work,
for the protection of the people in their
habitations, and for their protection
against tyranny in their productive free
dom of service In France the death
rate is three in thousand more than in
England, which means that there is a
preventible slaughter there of 112, 900
lives more than there is now in England.
In Germany the mortality of the army is
the lowest in Europe, and there is much
to say in the way of example of the
economies wrought by it, but, under its
municipal government, the death
rate of the civil population in
Germany is, very high. 1t is six in
1000 higher than in England, which
means sacrifice of 1875, 900 more lives
than is now annually sacrificed in Eng.
land. In Italy the death rate is eight
to 1000 higher, which implies sacrifice
of "a, 900 lives to the wastcfulness Of
ignorance there. In Austria the devas-
tation is still greater even than that. II
is no less than eleven in 1000 above the
English death rate which occasions los:
in that empire of upward of 400, 600
more than the present rate in England
and Wales. But the death rate of the
army in Russia is three times greater
than that of the army in Germany, and
the death rate of the civil population,
as described by the Rcgistar General O
France is still more terrible. To an in
ternational arbitration a decisive cas-,
could be made out against the extension
of such bad government over any popula
tion. These are examples of the waste
fulncss of ignorance and sloth agains
the economies Of we'll applied sanitary
science.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25
So LONDONDERRY THURSDAY AUGUST
To-day, Tonight, Tomorrow.

To-day, Tonight Tomorrow.
Iknow that In another room
Shut out by folds Of curtained gloom
Awaits the strange, the ever-sweet to-mor-
row,
And that some CLEAN of brightness may
borrow,
Tocheer and lighton my todayi
watch and wait the curtains sway
But only see its upper darkness lit
By cleaning points that seem at first to
fit,
Then steady glow and charm me into sleep;
And when waken at the curtains sweep,
Towards the fast fading CLEANS l see it
rolled
To find its darkness lined with rosy gold.
Shut out no longer by the gloom
/ cross the threshold of the room
To clasp my glad, my strange, my sweet to-
morrow.
But with my arms around her, find in sor-
With curtained Night she fed away,
And this Is but the sad to-day.
ICora A. Matson in the Current,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25
HUMOROUS.

The crab is very grasping creature
Never comes amiss - A married
woman. 4} S
The fly is tall insect. He stands over
six feet. Fact!
There is only one season of the year
for the kangaroo-Spring.
The crow is the most rational Of
bipeds. 1t never makes noise without
caws.
What is ancestry after all9 The rich
man as we'll as the poor one bcgips life
without shirt to his back.
''There is plenty of room at the top
said the hotel clerk as he ordered
the porter 70 put up another cot on the
roof.
1t is said that dollar goes further
now than it used to. Have the financiers
selected a more distant colony than
Canada2
Tricycle. riding is recommended as q
remedy for rheumatism. 1t is more ex-
citing than carrying a horse chestnut in
your pocket.
TT is not the big hog that pays, re-
marks the Mirror and Farmer. This is
very true The big hog always makes
the other fellows pay.
Some odd dinner customs still prevail.
The Romans used to recline at their
banquets, and the habit of lying at pub
lie dinners still prevail.
The costliness of strikes has been too
often dwelt upon to mention the fact
that man slapped another citizens face
and had to pay $40 for it.
"This beefstcak," said boarder at
hotel, ''must be three weeks Old" 81
couldn't say" replied the waitress, "Tve
only been here two weeks"
An agricultural paper says that crows
won't bother corn if it is soaked in kcro-
sene. We shouldn't think that men
would bother it very much either.
Hungry father Qate for his dinncr)-
Eddie, my son, have you got anything
in the shape of pie2' eyes, sir, said
the waggish Ed solemnly; ''pie-plates.' y
'Why is small boy like a woman2"
said certain man to his troublesome
wife. No response. Because he will
make man grown" said the conun-
drumist.
Johnny" inquired his aunt, "what
do you like best of all7" Candy" re-
piled Johnny. "And what after that!"
inquired his aunt more candy" re-
piled Johnny, after moments deliber-
alton.
"What are you doing now, Thomasp
asked the minister, patronizingly. II
am writer for the press" said the lad
proudly. Indeed, you are quite young
for that. What do you writer" ~ di-
rect wrappers"
The Cincinnati Enquirer says: "a
young composer has just written, for
soprano voice, beautiful song entitled:
Would that l were Young Againv It
has been so much time wasted. The
woman can't be found who will sing it."
John" said his wife, ''on our way
home from church tonight, Mr. Smiths
dog came very near biting mother.
As it was he frightened her seriously,
l think you ought to do something
about it." 81 will," responded John,
promptly; 'Ill see Smith the first thing
in the morning, and if he doesn't want
to much for the dog I'll buy him."
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25
A Plant Medicine.

DR.. A. B. Griffiths has demonstrated
that iron sulphate, or copperas, acts
upon the cellulose of the microscopic
fungi which prey upon plants, but does
not affect that of the higher plants them
selves. 1t is therefore remedy for the
most virulent epidemics which attack
field and garden crops, and destroys
such parasitic germs and fungi as the
potato disease, wheat mildew, etc. In
one English district this years crop Of
winter beans has failed on account of a
growth of fungus on the roots of the
plants-a disease which a timely appli-
cation of iron sulphate would have cured
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25
Street Travel In st. Petersburg.

A correspondent OF the st. James Ga
zette writes: 'If civilization is to be
estimated by facility of locomotion, st..
Petersburg is decidedly behindhand.
The streets, although very wide, are
abominably paved with kidney potato
stones-a bad material, to begin with,
aaad here very badly laid down; and be-
sides, there is very often gutter in the
middle of street-crossing which would
throw one of tho tiny drosky but for
the precautions taken by the natives.
The drosky is, as street cab, even worse
than a Dublin car. 1t is like very
small victoria; the horse is slow, the
driver is generally very stupid, there Is
barely room for two persons, and no pro.
lection against rain As you stroll along
the quays you are astonished at first at
the number of couples driving in dros-
kies, he with his arm around her waist
but this, you presently learn, is not be.
cause they are ACQUIRING; it is precau-
tion against being thrown out. But no
'ady may drive in drosky.
At nine o'clock in the evening, the
fashionable hour for driving, the Islands,
sort of park laid out in drives on the
far side of the Neva and reaching down
to the sea, are thronged with carriages,
in lines two and three deep, of the
greater folk of st. Petersburg who halt
their carriages at the Point to get out
and talk. The coachmcn are all dressed
alike, whether they drive private car.
riages or droskies, in a crowned
black hat, and blue bed-gown tied
round the waist and thickly stuffed; il
being just as much consideration for a
Russian Jehu to have broad back as it
is te an English footman to have height.
The harness of the horses is peculiar
blue canvas reins, thin trappings with
silver chains hanging about, especially
over the horses nose. But perhaps the
horses would look somewhat cart
horse-like in English harness, for they
are broadly built, with thick legs and
flowing long tails.
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"But he stole Bay Kittie."
"Neyer mind Bay Kittie" growled

'Never mind Bay KittieW growled
Hanks.
'sBut the boys is awaiting fer him."
"Let 'em watt"
"Wal," said Boulson, slowly, 'ff that
thar pris'ner gifts away faint none o. my
biz, reckon. I'm no sher'f (sherifD rs
l knows of. sides, we hain't got no
requisition, nohow."
''Boulson," said Hanks slowly, "me
an you hain't given ter talkin' bout
things what had better be left unsaid.
We don't tell no tales outen school.
Wal, sposen somethin' would happen
pretty soon, we wouldn't feel 'bleeged
ter tell the boys anythin' bout it, would
we2''
''Not much"
Hanks reached out one hard hand in
the starlight and Boulson shook it
heartily. Presently they stood beside
the prisoner. Without word Hanks
took OIL MS SnackleS.
"We was at the cabin" he said, can
the ole man told us eff we seed his boy
comm ter tell him ter hurry up. Yere's
yer hoss."
In dazed surprise the horse thiei
mounted.
'Tell him we seed his boy"
Then, as the man turned to speak,
Hanks sternly ordered him away.
"Git!" he cried.
Then, after the echoes had died away
and the rider must have reached the
cabin where the old man awaited him,
Hanks and Boulson clasped palms again,
and then, mounting, rode away up the
winding track and disappeared ovel
Hicks Knob New York Mercury.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25
Nothing Nervous About Her

Terrible thing, this ice cream sick
ness" remarked Charley, as he was out
walking with his girl. "It's caused by
something or other called tyrotoxicon.
I'm told the ice cream dealers have suf-
fered good deal of loss since its ap-
pearance. The girls are all afraid of it,
you know"
And Charley grinned to himself.
They walked on in silence. After
awhile she hung onto his arm with both
hands and murmured:
"Charley, dear, | do not know what
fear is when I'm with YOU"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25
Dangerous Roofs.

Roofs painted with lead paint, and
afterwards used to secure supply o.
rain water for drinking purposes, arr
dangerous to human health. We hav,
in mind case of promising lad of six
teen years of age, who is now ston,
blind as the result of blood poisoning
from drinking rain water collected from
aroof recently painted. This water wa.
filtered, but still contained sufficient o.
the mineral poison to cause disease
[American Cultivator.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25
PRICE THREE CENTS.
The Worhins Man.

The noblest mon that live Of, earth, 1.
Are men whose hands are brcwn with eo1a
Who, backed by no ancestral birth
Hew down thewoods sfatill the soil; b
And win thereby proisisr famc us
Than follows kings or WARRIORS nama
The working men, what'er their task, M
To carve the stone, to bear the hod, M
They wear upon their honest brows
The royal stamp and seal Of God; Ne
And brighter are their drops OF sweas
Than diamonds in coronet.
God bless the noble working meii,
Who rear the cities Of the plain;
Who dig the mines and build the ships,
And drive the commerce Of the main;
God bless them, for their swarthy hands
Have wrought the glory Of all lands
"fF -iGeorge Dsrnkeid. 9
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25
Luck and Plnck

Bad luck is simply man with his
hands in his pockets and his pipe in his
mouth, looking on to see how it is COM
ing out. Good luck is a man of pluck,
with his sleeves rolled up, and working
to make it come out right.-[Shoe and
Leather Reporter.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25
His Dinner Hour,

H. N. (newly married.; ''Well, good
bye, old man. Come up some night an6
take dinner with us.
c. B.: Thanks, will. What houl
do you have itl"
H. N. (meditatively): ooh, some
times at six, and sometimes at seven, and
then again at half-past seven, and, by
Jove, sometimes not till half-past eight.
---ILife.
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Harris Smiles.

In the front parlor, IL p. M:
Ethcl-Harry called tonight, papa.
He was too witty for anything and ali
smiles.
Papa-Yes; l can smell the smiles
yet.-lTown Topics.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-17
ISLAND NOTES.
Notes frous ssawa.G.
HILo, January 18th.

Huo, January 18th.
The numerous Hilo friends OF Mr..
Jules Tavernier, the artist, are delighted
to learn through the Honolulu press that
the exhibition of his artistic panorama of
the great Crater of kilauea is meeting
with such deserved success, artistically
and financially.
Quite a severe earthquake was felt at
Hilo on the 18th instant at l a. m.
The Woman's Temperance Union OF
Hilo held a meeting at Hail Church on
the 9th instant, in which '.woman" did
the reading and speaking Mr.. D. H.
Hitchcock read the programme; Rev.
Pablo prayed, showing conclusively that
woman can talk in meeting if she
will. The musical selections by the ma
tive and foreign church choirs were we'll
selected and rendered The new Gov
erness, Her Excellency Ululani, was
present, accompanied by Judge Hapai
and wife.
The brig Hazard is loading for San
Francisco. She will have a very full
load of sugar from Papaikou and Waia-
kea, and expects to leave on the 18th
instant. j. A NJ.
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LAHAINA. January 14th


Mr.. Pond, a very old Lahaina resident,
has been very i'll, but is now slowly re-
covering.
Police Justice Kahaolilio returned from
your city the other day, and from his
acknowledgements" cast of features it
is surmised that the special object OF his
visit thither was not successful.
Olowalu Plantation begins grinding
Immediately after the Chinese new year.
which begins on the 23d instant, and
ends-weil, when they get ready, say
from three to four days afterwards.
Strong winds prevailed few days
ago, and in consequence many algeroba
trees have been uprooted. Several shade
trees iii the grounds of His Excellency
the Minister of Foreign Affairs sue
cumbed to the violence of the late wind
storm.
The residents of Lahaina will hail
with pleasure the time when work is
begun on the water pipes. The appro
priation for the water supply of this town
will be money we'll laid out, and there
can be NO doubt that good interest on
the investment will Immediately follow
the completed work, for all those who
live makai OF the main Government road
have to- send quite distance for their
water, as that obtained near the sea is
brackish and not fit for drinking pur-
poses.
1t is said the Pioneer Mill is grinding
cane that will in places yield over six
tons to the acre. We need such Yields
as the sugar market now stands.
ANON.
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raisins and currants," he said in pub
llshed Interview peaches, prunes and
apricots for canning and drying; wal
nuts and olives for bottling and olive
oil; oranges, lemons and lines These
things can be prepared, and We think
profitably, for foreign markets. Freights
from Australia to England, where there
IS tremendous demand for canned fruit,
are cheaper than from California, where
1t has to be conveyed 5000 miles over
principally of wheat, barley, corn, Egyp-
tian corn and sorghum. l do not think
oats would do, as we found in Ontario
Southern California; that with irriga-
ton they grow to stalk, coming up like
young trees. We think too that the
colony would be distinguished by it's in
tense culture, making the land produce
all it is worth-putting man on a small
area and making him work it for al he
can get out of it--and he will find that
with a .dance OF water and hot days
and nights he will get more out of it than
by scamping large area"
In this connection it may be stated
that in the Ontario colony the average
individual estate is fifteen acres, and it
is found all that a family can properly
manage. This scheme opens out vast
possibilities for Australia; it likewise in
dicates the direction which an intelligent
policy OF internal development should
take iii this country. If these enter
prising Americans are prepared to risk
SO much money on the malice wilder
ness OF Australia, capital should be found
to bring the entire available area of these
islands under cultivation.
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Mr.. Z. ID. Preston.

The steamship Australia last trip
brought Mr.. e. d, Preston, of the United
States Coast Survey, who has been
granted leave of absence by his Govern
ment, with permission to assist Professor
Alexander, Surveyor General, in connec-
ton with his survey of these Islands.
Mr. Preston will be engaged exclusively
in determining ATTITUDES of precision by
astronomical observation. He will erect
a station at the mouth of Pearl harbor,
which will be the first point. Having
determined the exact latitude of this
island he will then probably proceed to
Hawaii and continue his observations
there, and afterwards to the other prin-
cipal islands of the group. This work is
of great Importance, and no more COM
petent scientist could be selected for the
purpose. 1t will be remembered that
upon Mr.. Preston's return from the
Caroline Islands with the Hartford
Eclipse Expedition in 1888, he determined
the latitude at Lahaina to the tenth of a
second by one hundred and thirteen OBJ
servations on thirty-five pairs of stars,
and subsequently at Honolulu, assisted
by Professor Alexander, his observations
for latitude confirmed the accuracy of
Captain Tupman's determination in 1874.
Mr.. PreStOn's observations will further
settle an interesting scientific point sug-
gested by Professor Alexander, namely,
that there is an extremely large defec-
ton OF gravity caused by the attraction
Of the mountain masses, of which there
are striking examples in California, the
Caucasus and Northern India. The Ha-
wailan Government is to be congratu-
lated upon securing the services of Mr.. |
Preston for this scientific work, and it is
- be hoped that the weather will prove
favorable for accurate and ex-
ended observation
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-17
Sugar Trade Items.

Messrs. Ireland & Fraser report under
date of December 9th The sugar
crop accounts are unfavorable, owing
to the shortness of the rainfall
Drought continues. 1t is feared it will
have a serious effect upon next years
crop. Engagements during the month
are 800 tons to Port Chalmers. There
has been serious decline in exchange,
which unsettles the condition of rates.
The nominal stock of sugar in hand is
10000 tons. Exports to New Zealand t
date are 1000 tons.
The export duties on sugar from Java
have been RENTED for five years.
The growing sugar cane in Cuba has
acquired an extraordinary development
for this season of the year, owing to
copious rains.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-17
Royal Hawaiian HoteI.

The following are the late arrivals at
the Hawaiian Hotel: Ed Hoffman,.
Maui; A. G. Burchardt, Kohala: r. M
Overend, Honokaa; HI. Turton, Jr., La
haina, Maui; w. H. Stone, Mrs. w. H
Stone, Kau, Hawaii G. F Gardner
Truckee, California; R. T Boot, and
wife, Boston, Mass. s. Cullen, Koolan
Oahu.
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Maui Notes.
KAHULUI. January 18th

NaHILUI, JdUudIy HUI.
The Rosario, Captain Christensen,
sails tomorrow for San Francisco, taking
the following cargo: 2,31O bags H. c. &
S. Co. sugar, 349, S44 pounds 1,027 bags
Waihee Sugar Co. sugar, 146, $50 pounds
113 bags sugar, j. w. Kalua and
Wilder & Co, IS, $50 pounds being total
OF $3.50 bags, weighing $685. pounds.
The following vessels are fully due F.
S. Thompson, coal for H. c.. & S. Co. /;
Ida Schnauer, merchandise for H. G.. &
S. Co.; Letitia, lumber for Wilder & Co.